This textbook is provided to students and graphic designers, enthralled with typography, who decide to design a font. You buy a copy of FontLab and are completely boggled by the interface and the complexities of designing a new font. This book will allow you to follow an experienced font designer through the workflow process he's developed since he began designing fonts in the late 1980s.
This book will show you (and guide you through the process) how to actually produce a new font starting with the new font command through designing the characters, keeping them consistent, letterspacing, kerning, and developing a font into a larger font family. He does this while actually designing several fonts, including: Ablati, Contenu, and Buddy which are available on MyFonts (Bitstream) and fonts.com.
The book shows you where to find additional free resources the author has developed over the years on his website. IN addition there is an updated workflow demonstrated in a video course on Udemy, of the same name.
This book will show you (and guide you through the process) how to actually produce a new font starting with the new font command through designing the characters, keeping them consistent, letterspacing, kerning, and developing a font into a larger font family. He does this while actually designing several fonts, including: Ablati, Contenu, and Buddy which are available on MyFonts (Bitstream) and fonts.com.
The book shows you where to find additional free resources the author has developed over the years on his website. IN addition there is an updated workflow demonstrated in a video course on Udemy, of the same name.
